dnf versus yum

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Przemek Klosowski
<przemek.klosowski at nist.gov> wrote:
> Another point: it shouldn't be hardwired into the package manager but
> rather result from package properties. I can see several ways to do it:
> - an 'essentiality' property in the RPM file
> - a yum/dnf configuration file specifying a set of protected packages
> - a special, unremovable 'system' package that depends on kernel and dnf
YAGNI? Abstractions are useful only when we actually have a
difference to abstract. (Perhaps we will have that difference with
Fedora.next, but we don't seem to have it now.)
Mirek